Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 388 413 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.61% 12.10% 15.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.33% 39.67% 49.49%
Number of salaries quoted 245 289 626
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £31,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £86,500 £75,000 £79,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,200 1,041 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.61% 30.50% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 574 559 1,227
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,904
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,975 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -16 105 £55,000 +10.00% 55
Cambridgeshire +8 94 £55,000 +46.67% 38
Essex -7 62 £35,000 -31.37% 42
Bedfordshire +9 60 £14,000 -72.00% 19
Suffolk +24 35 £42,500 +28.79% 19
Norfolk -2 28 £60,000 +91.24% 13
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 17
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.55%) WordPress
4 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 48 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (31.19%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (20.62%) AWS
3 72 (18.56%) Power Platform
4 63 (16.24%) Entra ID
5 30 (7.73%) Azure AI
6 19 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (4.64%) PowerApps
7 18 (4.64%) SaaS
8 17 (4.38%) GCP
8 17 (4.38%) GitHub
9 14 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.09%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.84%) IaaS
11 11 (2.84%) PaaS
12 8 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.80%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.55%) Serverless
15 5 (1.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 79 (20.36%) Firewall
2 32 (8.25%) TCP/IP
3 31 (7.99%) DHCP
4 28 (7.22%) DNS
5 26 (6.70%) WAN
6 24 (6.19%) VPN
7 21 (5.41%) LAN
8 15 (3.87%) Internet
8 15 (3.87%) VLAN
9 10 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (2.58%) WLAN
10 9 (2.32%) Wireless
11 8 (2.06%) SAN
12 6 (1.55%) IP Telephony
12 6 (1.55%) Network Security
13 4 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.03%) DMZ
13 4 (1.03%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.77%) VoIP
15 1 (0.26%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.46%) Power BI
2 31 (7.99%) Tableau
3 21 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.32%) MySQL
6 7 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.55%) Redis
8 5 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.03%) Big Data
9 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (4.64%) Git
2 7 (1.80%) JIRA
3 6 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.52%) MSTest
4 2 (0.52%) NUnit
4 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.52%) TestNG
5 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.82%) Finance
3 20 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.87%) Law
4 15 (3.87%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.84%) Multimedia
5 11 (2.84%) Publishing
6 9 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.80%) Legal
8 7 (1.80%) Retail
9 5 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.03%) Back Office
11 3 (0.77%) Automotive
11 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.52%) Advertising
12 2 (0.52%) Electronics
12 2 (0.52%) Local Government
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (21.65%) Analyst
2 64 (16.49%) IT Support
3 60 (15.46%) Junior
4 56 (14.43%) Junior Analyst
5 38 (9.79%) Senior
6 37 (9.54%) Architect
7 35 (9.02%) Developer
8 34 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (8.25%) IT Engineer
10 29 (7.47%) Support Engineer
11 28 (7.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 28 (7.22%) Data Analyst
11 28 (7.22%) Junior Data Analyst
11 28 (7.22%) Junior Security Analyst
11 28 (7.22%) Security Analyst
12 27 (6.96%) 2nd Line Support
13 25 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (6.44%) Support Analyst
14 23 (5.93%) IT Support Engineer
14 23 (5.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.67%) .NET
2 21 (5.41%) CSS
3 14 (3.61%) HTML
4 11 (2.84%) React
5 10 (2.58%) REST
6 7 (1.80%) jQuery
6 7 (1.80%) Vue
7 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.29%) Web Services
9 4 (1.03%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.03%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.03%) SignalR
9 4 (1.03%) SOAP
9 4 (1.03%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.77%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.77%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (0.77%) Blazor
10 3 (0.77%) Playwright
10 3 (0.77%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.06%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.55%) IoT
5 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.03%) PKI
7 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (30.67%) Windows
2 93 (23.97%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.93%) Windows 10
4 22 (5.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.09%) Linux
6 12 (3.09%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.55%) Android
8 5 (1.29%) VMS
9 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.52%) Unix
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.26%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (19.85%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (17.01%) Mentoring
4 63 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (13.66%) AI
6 50 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (12.63%) Agile
7 49 (12.63%) Customer Service
8 44 (11.34%) ITIL
9 39 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (9.28%) Roadmaps
11 35 (9.02%) Analytics
11 35 (9.02%) CI/CD
12 34 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (8.51%) DevOps
14 25 (6.44%) Software Engineering
14 25 (6.44%) Technology Roadmap
15 23 (5.93%) ERP
16 21 (5.41%) Service Delivery
17 20 (5.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 62 (15.98%) Python
2 60 (15.46%) SQL
3 44 (11.34%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.76%) C#
5 24 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.35%) PHP
7 10 (2.58%) R
8 9 (2.32%) Java
9 7 (1.80%) C++
10 6 (1.55%) Bash
10 6 (1.55%) VBScript
11 4 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.77%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.52%) Bicep
14 1 (0.26%) Go
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 53 (13.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (10.05%) Degree
4 30 (7.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 29 (7.47%) Security Cleared
6 28 (7.22%) CompTIA CySA+
7 26 (6.70%) AWS Certification
8 22 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (4.90%) DBS Check
10 17 (4.38%) CCNA
10 17 (4.38%) SC Cleared
11 16 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (2.06%) CCNP
15 8 (2.06%) MCSA
16 6 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
17 5 (1.29%) A+ Certification
17 5 (1.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.32%) GDPR
4 7 (1.80%) NIST
5 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.55%) QA
6 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.03%) GRC
7 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.03%) NCSC
7 4 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (25.77%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.35%) Docker
4 13 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.55%) vSphere
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (13.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.32%) SCCM
4 8 (2.06%) Terraform
5 6 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.55%) Ansible
6 4 (1.03%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.77%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.52%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.26%) Grafana
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 245 (63.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.25%) ForeScout
2 32 (8.25%) VMware
3 18 (4.64%) Cisco
3 18 (4.64%) SAP
4 16 (4.12%) Fortinet
5 14 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (2.84%) Workday
8 8 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.55%) Apple
9 6 (1.55%) Aruba
9 6 (1.55%) Databricks
9 6 (1.55%) Google
10 5 (1.29%) DevExpress
10 5 (1.29%) Veeam
11 4 (1.03%) Juniper
11 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.03%) Pega